Cockroad Wood Castle
Cockroad Wood Castle is an Outbound castle at Wincanton and belongs to the church today Charlton Musgrave in the English county of Somerset .
history
Cockroad Wood Castle was a moth believed to have been built soon after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The ruin is near the contemporary Norman castles Ballands Castle and Castle Orchard . It may have been part of a system of fortresses that controlled the area. Around 1086 the surrounding land belonged to the Norman knight Walter of Douai . There are no documents about the construction of the castle.
The castle consisted of a mound , a core and an outer bailey , which lined up along the running in a north-south direction of hills. The entrance was possibly on the east side. The mound is now 13.5 meters wide, 7.5 meters high and surrounded by a 1.25 meter deep moat . The core and outer bailey were probably connected to the mound by wooden bridges.
Today the castle grounds are a Scheduled Monument .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Oliver Hamilton Creighton: Castles and Landscapes: Power, Community and Fortification in Medieval England . Equinox, London 2005. ISBN 978-1-904768-67-8 . P. 62.
- ↑ a b c d Motte and Bailey Castle, Cockroad Wood, Charlton Musgrove . Somerset County Historic Environmental Record. ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
- ↑ Cockroad Wood Motte, Charlton Musgrove . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 13.6 " N , 2 ° 37 ′ 41.9" W.